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Simply Glass · Guest

Is it just alot of HYPE?

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Simply Glass wrote:

Does it really matter if your keywords are in you domain? I have seen plenty of great site that rank in the top 3 and there domain doesn’t have the keywords. Is it all just a lot of hype? Yes I know it will help but it’s not a must…Is it?

I’m thinking about testing this theory. I’m having a website built right now and all the good domains are taking and I don’t like seeing crazy looking domains like Washingpressurelouisville coming up with my site. I'm going to just keep the domain simple and have some great back links, Meta tags and Meta description done and hit up some directories ( and a few other things Shh.)

Any thoughts?

OK, my web site www.saferoofcleaning.com has 2 of my 3 keywords in it, yet still ranks #1 in Tampa Roof Cleaning Searches. But it is an OLD URL with thousands of links. No way around it, all things being equal, a URL with keywords will out rank one w/o. You have a problem with your Redirect, or the slow server it is on ?
Something is drastically wrong, I click your site, and it takes 5 to 8 seconds for the page to even begin to load! A Crawler may throw you out of the searches. It aint gonna wait 8 seconds for a response, like I did, and neither will a customer.

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX · Guest

+1.

Also on a side note. Your twitter, facebook and youtube links, all take you AWAY from your site. I would set them to pop open in a new window or tab. I wasnt done looking at your site but clicked on twitter, then clicked out of the widow which shut your website down. You never want them to navigate completely away from you. Just a thought

Simply Glass · Guest

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

Simply Glass wrote:

Does it really matter if your keywords are in you domain? I have seen plenty of great site that rank in the top 3 and there domain doesn’t have the keywords. Is it all just a lot of hype? Yes I know it will help but it’s not a must…Is it?

I’m thinking about testing this theory. I’m having a website built right now and all the good domains are taking and I don’t like seeing crazy looking domains like Washingpressurelouisville coming up with my site. I'm going to just keep the domain simple and have some great back links, Meta tags and Meta description done and hit up some directories ( and a few other things Shh.)

Any thoughts?

OK, my web site www.saferoofcleaning.com has 2 of my 3 keywords in it, yet still ranks #1 in Tampa Roof Cleaning Searches. But it is an OLD URL with thousands of links. No way around it, all things being equal, a URL with keywords will out rank one w/o. You have a problem with your Redirect, or the slow server it is on ?
Something is drastically wrong, I click your site, and it takes 5 to 8 seconds for the page to even begin to load! A Crawler may throw you out of the searches. It aint gonna wait 8 seconds for a response, like I did, and neither will a customer.

Umm.... I understand that my Window Cleaning website is messing up right now but that is being worked on. I was talking about the new site im having built. Oh and by the way. Im #1 for window cleaning louisville and Louisville window cleaning for bing yahoo and google so back to the question.

On my NEW site (that isnt even up yet) will it really make that big of a difference if no keywords are in my NEW sites domain??

Simply Glass · Guest

Confident Roof Cleaning Houston TX wrote:

+1.

Also on a side note. Your twitter, facebook and youtube links, all take you AWAY from your site. I would set them to pop open in a new window or tab. I wasnt done looking at your site but clicked on twitter, then clicked out of the widow which shut your website down. You never want them to navigate completely away from you. Just a thought

Great advice thanks.

RCIA Founder

Simply Glass wrote:

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

Simply Glass wrote:

Does it really matter if your keywords are in you domain? I have seen plenty of great site that rank in the top 3 and there domain doesn’t have the keywords. Is it all just a lot of hype? Yes I know it will help but it’s not a must…Is it?

I’m thinking about testing this theory. I’m having a website built right now and all the good domains are taking and I don’t like seeing crazy looking domains like Washingpressurelouisville coming up with my site. I'm going to just keep the domain simple and have some great back links, Meta tags and Meta description done and hit up some directories ( and a few other things Shh.)

Any thoughts?

OK, my web site www.saferoofcleaning.com has 2 of my 3 keywords in it, yet still ranks #1 in Tampa Roof Cleaning Searches. But it is an OLD URL with thousands of links. No way around it, all things being equal, a URL with keywords will out rank one w/o. You have a problem with your Redirect, or the slow server it is on ?
Something is drastically wrong, I click your site, and it takes 5 to 8 seconds for the page to even begin to load! A Crawler may throw you out of the searches. It aint gonna wait 8 seconds for a response, like I did, and neither will a customer.

Umm.... I understand that my Window Cleaning website is messing up right now but that is being worked on. I was talking about the new site im having built. Oh and by the way. Im #1 for window cleaning louisville and Louisville window cleaning for bing yahoo and google so back to the question.

On my NEW site (that isnt even up yet) will it really make that big of a difference if no keywords are in my NEW sites domain??

Same Answer I gave before. It is kind of like playing Football. A Team may want to throw the bomb, but if there are 6 defensive backs, you run the ball, take what the Defense allows. If your area the new web site is aimed at is called Roof Cleaning Tampa, you won't get away with that stuff. The Competition will not allow it.
But for window cleaning bum fuk egypt, you may be able to get away with it ?
It all depends on how much competition you will face for the Top Spot ?

Simply Glass · Guest

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

Simply Glass wrote:

Apple Roof Cleaning Tampa FL (813) 655-8777 wrote:

Simply Glass wrote:

Does it really matter if your keywords are in you domain? I have seen plenty of great site that rank in the top 3 and there domain doesn’t have the keywords. Is it all just a lot of hype? Yes I know it will help but it’s not a must…Is it?

I’m thinking about testing this theory. I’m having a website built right now and all the good domains are taking and I don’t like seeing crazy looking domains like Washingpressurelouisville coming up with my site. I'm going to just keep the domain simple and have some great back links, Meta tags and Meta description done and hit up some directories ( and a few other things Shh.)

Any thoughts?

OK, my web site www.saferoofcleaning.com has 2 of my 3 keywords in it, yet still ranks #1 in Tampa Roof Cleaning Searches. But it is an OLD URL with thousands of links. No way around it, all things being equal, a URL with keywords will out rank one w/o. You have a problem with your Redirect, or the slow server it is on ?
Something is drastically wrong, I click your site, and it takes 5 to 8 seconds for the page to even begin to load! A Crawler may throw you out of the searches. It aint gonna wait 8 seconds for a response, like I did, and neither will a customer.

Umm.... I understand that my Window Cleaning website is messing up right now but that is being worked on. I was talking about the new site im having built. Oh and by the way. Im #1 for window cleaning louisville and Louisville window cleaning for bing yahoo and google so back to the question.

On my NEW site (that isnt even up yet) will it really make that big of a difference if no keywords are in my NEW sites domain??

Same Answer I gave before. It is kind of like playing Football. A Team may want to throw the bomb, but if there are 6 defensive backs, you run the ball, take what the Defense allows. If your area the new web site is aimed at is called Roof Cleaning Tampa, you won't get away with that stuff. The Competition will not allow it.
But for window cleaning bum fuk egypt, you may be able to get away with it ?
It all depends on how much competition you will face for the Top Spot ?

Good point. Well here there is pretty much none but I still like how you put that so im going to have to rethink this. Thanks.

-- Edited by Simply Glass on Friday 13th of August 2010 07:07:55 PM

RCIA Founder

Ok my URL is saferoofcleaning,com here is my web site being pulled up in this roof safe tampa florida search
remember, a keyword is a keyword, in the URL or not!
Another Tip, when you buy a domain, always buy it for 5 years, or MORE !

Google can tell how long you purchased the domain for. Spammers soon abandon domains, they become useless in less then a year. REAL web sites keep domains forever. SEO 101 biggrin

Simply Glass · Guest

Yeah I know about the 5 yrs deal Im just struggling with a domain. I own about 10 or 15 domains as of right now but I cant find the one I need. Thats how it always is with me. Have tools but not the one I need.

I wanting a pressure washing domain. And suggestions?

SEODoug · Guest

Keywords in the domain are helpful, but not neccecary.

Remember that subdomains are viewed as seperate domains completely, so if I where to do something like this for my own window cleaning site I would do it like this:

http://roofcleaning.streakfreesd.com

or

http://roof-cleaning.streakfreesd.com (this would be even better SEO wise, although with the hyphen, it looks a little spammy)

The benefit with this that you don't have to buy a new domain and it can help with branding as it still includes your main URLS name in the address.

I hope I'm making sense in what I'm trying to say!

-- Edited by SEODoug on Wednesday 18th of August 2010 04:57:26 AM

Simply Glass · Guest

SEODoug wrote:

Keywords in the domain are helpful, but not neccecary.

Remember that subdomains are viewed as seperate domains completely, so if I where to do something like this for my own window cleaning site I would do it like this:

http://roofcleaning.streakfreesd.com

or

http://roof-cleaning.streakfreesd.com (this would be even better SEO wise, although with the hyphen, it looks a little spammy)

The benefit with this that you don't have to buy a new domain and it can help with branding as it still includes your main URLS name in the address?

I hope I'm making sense in what I'm trying to say!

Thanks Doug! That makes perfect sense.

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